My mother who is recently widowed and in her 70's is having a very bad problem with her next door neighbor and is very frightened. She has owned and lived in her house for 45 years and never had a problem like this. He and his wife moved in 2 years ago (renters). He has become increasingly bizarre. She thinks he has PTSD. A few months ago, he told her a story about how a coyote had jumped his fence and grabbed one of his little Yorkshire Terriers and took off with it. His wife was supposedly on the back porch smoking when this all happened. We have a creek close by but in all the years we've lived there, we've never seen a coyote or any wild animal and we spent lots of time in that creek as kids. He started complaining to her that she had to stop feeding the feral cats in the neighborhood and said that because she feeds them, they cause a problem at his house and he's been very vocal to her about this. She said he sits out in his back yard in a chair with a gun across his lap at night and has camera's all around the house (also has one pointed at her house and when we come to visit, he all of a sudden is outside watching us). Mom ended up with 2 babies from one of the females and we made a little shelter for them in her yard and it has been her joy to care for these 2 kittens. A few months ago, she went outside and one of the cats was dismembered in the middle of the back yard and the head was missing. The body had been cut up (not torn apart by an animal). She called animal control to come pick up the body and this guy was over to her house and tried to say a coyote did this and he had been down the alley earlier to see if he could find the head. I was sure at the time that he did this but we had no proof. Now 3 months later her "Princess" who just brought her 3 kittens to mom met the same fate. In the same exact spot in the yard. No way this was a coincidence and this guy not only murdered these babies but displayed them in my mother's yard to either hurt or scare her. Again no proof that he did it, but I am convinced he's the culprit.
Once we had the back door open and we came from the back of the house and we caught him stepping into her house from the back yard. She has a chain link fence surrounding her yard and both gates have locks so he would have had to jump the fence to get in the yard. He saw us and stammered that he saw her door open and was worried something was wrong. He knew full well I was visiting and mom said the day before her house alarm kept going off and he never once came to check on her. Needless to say, she is afraid of this guy. She's afraid to call the police or antagonize him. I am concerned because she lives by herself and if he wanted to get into her house he could. She has an alarm (and a gun) but if this guy has military experience, he's dangerous. Any suggestions to what she should do? We have installed cameras to record the exterior of the house but other than hoping he moves out soon, we don't know what to do. She is keeping the kittens her Princess left her in the house so he doesn't get to them and she is trying to find safe homes for them.
Once we had the back door open and we came from the back of the house and we caught him stepping into her house from the back yard. She has a chain link fence surrounding her yard and both gates have locks so he would have had to jump the fence to get in the yard. He saw us and stammered that he saw her door open and was worried something was wrong. He knew full well I was visiting and mom said the day before her house alarm kept going off and he never once came to check on her. Needless to say, she is afraid of this guy. She's afraid to call the police or antagonize him. I am concerned because she lives by herself and if he wanted to get into her house he could. She has an alarm (and a gun) but if this guy has military experience, he's dangerous. Any suggestions to what she should do? We have installed cameras to record the exterior of the house but other than hoping he moves out soon, we don't know what to do. She is keeping the kittens her Princess left her in the house so he doesn't get to them and she is trying to find safe homes for them.